Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Work continues on getting GNOME 2.30 ready for our employees and making great progress. One of the benefits of this project is that we wil...

Lots of things keeping me busy, but making excellent progress on building a new server to run 64bit OpenSuse 11.3 and GNOME 2.30. Now that ...

Yesterday when I posted the MIME bar prototype, I was given some ideas to make the dialog easier to use and fit better into current UI desig...

Many things are happening at once, but I have made some changes to the new MIME bars to test ideas with our users. I'm now logging on G...

One of the benefits of starting to poke at a desktop upgrade to GNOME 2.30 is being able to take what I learned the last time and making imp...

It's good to see GNOME 2.30 running on our thin clients (below). My thanks to those that helped me get this working and squash a few bu...

Just back to the office after a long weekend and I thought that I would create an update on the various projects. Recreation System The deve...

In a previous blog I had described the security camera that we selected for taking pictures of our citizens for recreation cards. We found ...

Our IT/Integration division was able to go live with the first milestone of changes to the recreation system on a new server. I haven't...

I never thought that I would such high marks to anything related to Java, but as it stands right now this is the only piece of the puzzle wo...

I was pulled off of doing Admin work for a few days to help with some technical projects and assisting in getting some pieces together for o...

I have to join the voices today that are complaining about Adobe. I'm building a multi-year 64 bit server to run our Firefox sessions...

What is interesting to me whenever we look at software and hardware to solve problems is the needless level of complexity and cost. Let me ...

Life at Largo never slows down. When you push new technology live, there is always more waiting in the wings. Here is what is going on: E...

A few years ago I was asked to write a book and some of you have purchased it. Obviously one hopes that a book always meets the expectation...

Centralized computing makes it so difficult to upgrade hundreds of users to the latest release of the ever exploited Adobe Acrobat Reader. :...

After that small hiccup with running Evolution on 32bit Linux and the memory limitations, we are now live on 64bit SLED 11 and the differenc...

The week has been busy and it's only Tuesday. Here are updates on my current projects. OpenOffice Migration to 64bit Linux is complete ...

So this week we deployed OpenOffice on 64bit Linux for the first time. It's smoking fast and works great especially under user loads; h...

Evolution 2.28 Those of you that have met me and communicate with me know that I'm pretty fair in describing good & bad experiences ...